PMID- 25329633 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150629 LR - 20141021 IS - 1399-0039 (Electronic) IS - 0001-2815 (Linking) VI - 84 IP - 5 DP - 2014 Nov TI - Genetic risk for co-occurrence of type 1 diabetes and celiac disease is modified by HLA-C and killer immunoglobulin-like receptors. PG - 471-8 LID - 10.1111/tan.12450 [doi] AB - The prevalence of celiac disease (CD) in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) has been reported to be 5-7 times higher than in the general population. Risk factors for co-occurrence of both diseases have not been entirely established. The aim of our study was to analyze possible impact of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I and killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) on the co-occurrence of T1D and CD. We analyzed 67 patients with T1D, 68 patients with CD, 69 patients with both diseases (T1D+CD) and 130 controls. Statistical analysis was based on two tailed Fisher exact test with corrections for multiple testing. After stratification by DR3-DQ2, an association of HLA class I part of the COX haplotype (A1-B8-Cw7-DR3-DQ2) was not observed with each of the studied diseases separately, but it could be shown in case of the co-occurrence of T1D and CD. Only in the group of patients with coexisting diseases, the presence of HLA-C*07 (P = 8.65x10(-3) ) and HLA-B*08 (P = 0.03) but not HLA-A*01 increased the succeptibility. Our current data indicated that C*07, contributing C1 ligand (Pc = 3.67x10(-5) ) rather than B*08, that possesses no KIR ligand, could have an impact on the innate immunity rout of this susceptibility. The significant combination of C1-KIR2DL3 (Pc = 1.97x10(-4) ) observed in patients with coexisting diseases supports this hypotesis. Interestingly, no association was observed when C1 in combination with its stronger inhibitory receptor KIR2DL2 was investigated. Predominantly, weak inhibition in patients with coexisting T1D and CD could lead to a natural killer cell response, making them vulnerable for developing more than one autoimmune disease. CI - (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Smigoc Schweiger, D AU - Smigoc Schweiger D AD - Department of Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Centre - University Children's Hospital, Ljubljana, Slovenia. FAU - Mendez, A AU - Mendez A FAU - Kunilo Jamnik, S AU - Kunilo Jamnik S FAU - Bratanic, N AU - Bratanic N FAU - Bratina, N AU - Bratina N FAU - Battelino, T AU - Battelino T FAU - Brecelj, J AU - Brecelj J FAU - Vidan-Jeras, B AU - Vidan-Jeras B LA - eng PT - Clinical Trial PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Tissue Antigens JT - Tissue antigens JID - 0331072 RN - 0 (HLA-C Antigens) RN - 0 (KIR2DL2 protein, human) RN - 0 (KIR2DL3 protein, human) RN - 0 (Receptors, KIR2DL2) RN - 0 (Receptors, KIR2DL3) SB - IM MH - *Celiac Disease/epidemiology MH - Comorbidity MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/epidemiology/genetics MH - Female MH - *Genetic Predisposition to Disease MH - HLA-C Antigens/*genetics MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Prevalence MH - Receptors, KIR2DL2/*genetics MH - Receptors, KIR2DL3/*genetics OTO - NOTNLM OT - celiac disease OT - co-occurrence OT - human leukocyte antigen class I OT - killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor OT - receptor-ligand interaction OT - type 1 diabetes EDAT- 2014/10/21 06:00 MHDA- 2015/06/30 06:00 CRDT- 2014/10/21 06:00 PHST- 2014/04/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/09/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/09/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/10/21 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/10/21 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/06/30 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/tan.12450 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Tissue Antigens. 2014 Nov;84(5):471-8. doi: 10.1111/tan.12450.